A pizza can be completely demolished by a 'fountain' of 10,000 maggots in under two hours. Researchers tracked individual larvae as they feasted and discovered the hoard resembles a 'fountain' as they eat for five minutes before taking a rest and letting others take over. Olga Shishkov of Georgia Tech in Atlanta found the individual maggots do not continuously eat. Video footage from the experiment, published in the Royal Society, appears to show chaos as the pizza is demolished, but there is order among the young insects. A pizza can be completely demolished by a 'fountain' of 10,000 maggots in under two hours.

Source: Daily Mail February 06, 2019 15:00 UTC